the elite ea academy.
a unique course offered to full teams to support rising together
unlock your team’s full potential.
Success as an administration professional is often not a linear journey.
Those who succeed are the ones with the somewhat intangible soft skills, the special something that can take an entire career to develop.
Training and handovers frequently miss the mark. They share the ‘how’ and not the ‘why’ and this is is a huge disservice to all administration professionals.
It doesn’t truly set them up for success. It slows the process of reaching full potential. It creates career plateaus. It limits earning capacity. It impacts confidence and self-belief.
It also constrains an assistant from delivering impact and value to an organisation. It can take a year for an assistant to begin to completely own their role.
The Elite EA Academy is the missing link.
The learning and development within will enable your assistants to elevate the support they provide and stretch their thinking.
It will help them pave a meaningful career runway, one that will bring satisfaction, fulfilment, longevity and stay relevant in a changing world.
The program is created and delivered by someone with deep Executive Assistant experience, a proven track record of high performance and who has the tried and tested strategies, processes, disciplines, tips and tools that get results.
All strategies, processes, disciplines and ways of working have been tested and proven to be effective in:
Private and public companies
NFP and for profit
Several countries
Large, medium and small organisations
Start up environments, highly sophisticated/well established organisations, rapidly scaling environments and those on a transformation journey
Group matrix structures
Organisations that are recovering from a crisis or change in senior leadership
Supporting executives and leaders who already know how to partner with their assistant
Supporting leaders and executives who are on a learning curve of working closely with their assistant
The power of learning together.
Your team will be on the same journey, at the same time, inspired, motivated, sharing ideas, supporting each other. This creates an uplift in engagement and a cohesiveness that gets results.
Elevating as a collective means your team can add exponential value and ROI to the organisation.
Your organisation and your leaders will experience higher levels of innovation from the team as they work together to remove roadblocks and create ease and flow in your environment.
Your leaders can expect impactful and dynamic support that creates spaciousness for them, freeing them to focus on the issues that matter most.
pillars we explore for impact.
THE RESULTS
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empowerment
Never feel like ‘just’ an assistant again.
Understand how to reach self mastery.
Amplify your self belief and confidence, supporting you to create more impact in your role and your career.
Overcome any blocks and challenges that are holding you back (including those you didn’t realise you had).
Embrace your authenticity, leveraging and amplifying your uniqueness and developing a sense of self worth that propels you forward in your career.
Own your authority, back yourself and insist on being seen as talent not a resource.
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mindset + wellbeing
A healthy, growth mindset supporting you to reach your full potential and step out of your comfort zone.
The ways of working and behaviours that help you AND the people you support stay in the high performance zone without burning out.
Developing the resilience to move through setbacks and disappointments with ease.
Techniques and strategies to support calm in moments of challenge.
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Technical knowledge
Elevated thinking so you can provide a superior level of support and can lean into the strategic space.
Deep business knowledge that enables you to create free time where there is none, supercharge efficiency, and ease organisational friction, thereby reducing stress.
Embedded best practices and ways of working that get results fast ( and how to get buy-in to introduce fresh ways of working).
Access to full processes, disciplines and templates that are tried, tested and proven to deliver results.
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Leadership
Recognise what leadership as an EA looks like in practice and the ways you are already stepping up as a leader.
Understand how to articulate this so your potential can be supported and developed.
Step into your full leadership potential, leading comfortably from behind AND in front and influence with ease.
Show up as a cultural beacon, shaping the culture of the environment you’re in through the prioritisation decisions you make and the conversations you choose to start or be part of.
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Career progression
An understanding of how to create the opportunities that will support you to stretch and expand your skillset and experience.
A personal profile and presence that has you standing out for all the right reasons.
The ability to create your career blueprint, understanding the opportunities available to you and where your unique talents and strengths can be leveraged in the career you’re in or to support transitioning to another.
This course builds solid, sustainable foundations to understand how executives think and the level of support that is most impactful.
It helps to develop the qualities, attributes and thinking that support high performance.
You’ll get the tools, tips and strategies to create the best practices, disciplines and ways of working that get results: efficiency, cut through, easing organisational pain and friction, influence, credibility, respect and opportunities.
Prior alumni who have benefited from the program includes Chair and CEO EAs, C-Suite EAs, Office Managers, Senior EAs, PAs and Secretaries.
Wherever your team is in their career journey, they will find what they need to level up.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOUr team If…
The launch pad to transformation.
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They’d like support from someone who has personally done the work and ‘get’s the unique, weird and wonderful challenges admin professionals face every day.
They want to hit reset on your career or in your current role and explore a fresh approach to doing what they do.
They’ve had to figure everything out as they go and it’s worked so far because they’re resourceful and motivated, but they want to go from good to GREAT.
Their goals read as doing their job and it’s not creating the level of impact they’re capable of.
They want to expand their earning potential.
They’re new to C-Suite support and want help to lean into higher value, more strategic support vs tactical or transactional support.
They want to elevate the support they provide to Senior Management, Executives and Leadership teams to increase their impact.
Your executive or team are caught in a cycle of reactivity that is creating pain, overwhelm and frustration or anxiety.
They need a safe space to fine tune the essential skills all highly regarded, high performing EAs have in their toolbox, the dots EAs are left to connect alone as they move through their career.
They fell into this career and aren’t clear on their career options or what’s needed to progress.
They haven’t had grass roots training or on the job mentoring to help develop the thinking and mindset required to provide high performance, high value support.
They’ve lost your confidence, are held back by self doubt or have trouble stepping out of the comfort zone.
They have trouble backing themselves and going after what they want most in their career or workplace.
They want to be regarded as a leader, have increased influence, credibility, respect, recognition and reward.
They’re transitioning between admin careers (eg TA or PA to an EA role, or from senior management support to Executive or CEO support).
They feel a bit stuck or that you’ve plateaued in your current role or organisation.
They don’t know how to stretch the breadth of your role, adding more value to your employer and more career satisfaction for them.
They’re not sure of the value they bring to an organisation, or they know but have problems articulating it.
They don’t know what their strengths are, or do, but can’t leverage them in their current role.
They wish they understood how connecting to purpose and values helps set them apart in their ole and career.
They feel stuck in a constant cycle of burn out and stress and need help to show up as their best selves in work and life.
They’ve tried really hard to be proactive but can’t seem to make a true partnering support relationship click with their team or Executive.
They frequently don’t feel seen, heard, respected or valued.
To find their unique EA blueprint, to do things their way and have an impact and contribution that’s meaningful to them and a benefit to the organisation.
The topics and themes we explore in the pillars
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Confidence foundations for EAs
Why many EAs often suffer from a lack of self belief and confidence
Strategies and practices to build confidence and support a sense of empowerment
Speaking up in meetings (and in general)
Backing yourself
Articulating Worth
Handling challenging people
Using elevated language
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Business Writing
Governance 101
Pitching your ideas
Business cases 101
Tools and disciplines to ease org friction
Crisis management
Best practices and ways of working
Conflict resolution
Being a change agent
Soft skills
Sets of templates, full processes and best practices to support you to hit the ground running.
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Why mindset is the foundation to career success
Tools and strategies to nurture a healthy mindset daily
Career / workplace resilience
Developing a growth mindset
Hallmarks of a limited mindset
Changing internal narrative to support unshakeable self belief
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What it takes to stand out as a candidate of choice in the external market
Qualities and attributes to be regarded as talent internally
Increasing earning capability
Stand out CVs
Clever interview questions
Highly regarded experience and skills
Leveraging your uniqueness
Leading development discussions
Create goals that propel you forward
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Maximise on-the-job learning
Get on the radar for internal opportunities that will expand your experience and skillset
Creating opportunities for yourself in your role and workplace
Conversations to drive your development
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How to develop strategic thinking as an EA and why it is important
What it looks like in practice - how to apply it day to day
How to recognise where you are already working strategically
Learn to think like an executive - priorities
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What leadership looks like for EAs, regardless of hierarchy
Showing up in the small moments that matter daily
Shaping culture through actions
Different leadership styles
Leading from behind in practice
Building credibility and respect
Leading teams
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Raising your internal profile
Developing executive presence
Defining and leveraging your personal brand
Elevated language and communications
Showing up in a way that commands respect, recognition and reward
Influencing, relationships and becoming a trusted advisor
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Detecting and connecting to purpose
Bringing values into work
Integrity and ethics
Showing up as a cultural beacon
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Your vision for your career
Meaningful goal setting
Leading development conversations
Elevated performance review conversations
Staying relevant in an evolving landscape
Developing specialist skills
Leveraging strengths
Soft skills awareness, development and appreciation
Understanding career progression pathways and how to fill the gaps to get there
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Providing elevated support
Creating free time where there is’t any
Building trust , becoming a trusted advisor
Efficient, succinct communication
Managing expectations
Managing up AND down
Communicating how your work directly contributes to the success of the people you support (tangible, measurable data)
How to understand what work should be prioritised when scheduling meetings and forward planning
Ways to communicate effectively when there isn’t space to meet
Influencing for impact
The extra mile - what it looks like
Creating first drafts of CEO reports to the Board - the information nobody tells you to be successful doing this
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The warning signs of burnout and what to do if you reach that point
Why EAs are at risk of burnout
Strategies to avoid burnout
Prioritising wellbeing (yours and your Executive’s)
Shaping a well workplace culture through ways of working and best practices that everyone benefits from
Resilience for EAs
Healthy boundaries
Caring for your nervous system
Retaining your sense of self in a service based role
the format and delivery.
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the Delivery
You choose your team’s start date.
8 modules of lessons are released for your team to work through at their own pace over 10 weeks.
They’ll receive email encouragement across the 10 weeks to help them maintain momentum and accountability.
The team can watch the tutorials and complete the exercises in their time, at their pace. This gives the spaciousness to allow the content to settle in their mind and begin to take action with the learnings.
Some of the videos are longer than others, some are bite size with thinking exercises to follow and there’s further reading, watching and listening recommendations for anyone who wants to go All In.
Refer to FAQs for more information.
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live touch points
We begin with a 30 minute kick-off call so your team is set up for success to move through the course.
We have 4 x 90 minute group calls over the course of the 10 weeks where the team has the opportunity to ask questions and seek the support needed to move through any challenges or blocks.
Questions are submitted in advance of the call to maximise the time we have together and to develop the habit of preparing for commitments like an executive. There is plenty of space for interaction and support as a community throughout the call. Calls are recorded for those who can’t make the sessions live.
We operate on Chatham House Rules, creating a safe space for everyone to share what they’re experiencing.
Live call times are set to time slots within business hours that suit the majority of your team within Rachael’s availability.
Visit FAQs to see more.
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Embedding learning
Showing up to do the learning is amazing.
Taking action is what gets results and is an important part of any transformation journey.
After each module the team will be prompted to take action or set a commitment to help arrive at clarity, work through blocks and to create the positive change and impact they desire.
They will be encouraged to embed new ways of working, thinking and practices and reflect on their impact as we move through the course.
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program pathways
There are two levels of access for the course.
To do the course with the group mentoring format.
Or go deeper with private mentoring to help individuals move through a challenge or block or strategise.
Choose the pathway that best meets your team’s needs and budget.
Tier One | The course
Tier Two | The course + a private 90 minute strategy session with Rachael
See FAQs for more pathway detail.
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upOn Completion
At the end of the course individuals may be eligible to receive a certificate of completion and transcript describing each module’s focus and outcomes.
They can use this to support their next performance review or goal setting discussion, clearly articulating their areas of impact.
It can also support development conversations to help their executive understand how to invest in them (both on the job learning and utilising training budgets) and leverage their strengths and passions for highest impact and ROI.
They’ll need to complete a final assessment to receive this and this is offered as incentive to keep up with the course work and complete everything within the designated timeframe.
If they’ve been doing the work the assessment will be easy.
See FAQs for more detail.
Get in touch to discuss pricing as it varies dependent on group size (Sliding discount scale for multiple places in the same intake) and whether private mentoring is included.
the investment.
FAQs for your team.
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Yes!
This is an expanded course with new content.
Some of the topics you have already touched on in The Alchemist or Impactful Leader are in here, but are explored in greater depth or with different information in this course
Content reflects the period of recalibration we are now in with the pandemic and the shifts to ways of working, challenges and opportunities associated with that.
Those who have been through any of Rachael’s programs will benefit from this.
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Some modules are longer than others, but the beauty of a self-paced course is that you can hit pause and complete it in the time frame that works best with your lifestyle.
As a guide below is the watch time for tutorials:
Module 1: ~2 hours
Module 2: ~1 hour
Module 3: ~ 2 hours
Module 4: ~2 hours
Module 5: ~1.5 hours
Module 6: ~1.5 hours
Module 7: ~2 hours
Module 8: ~10 minutes
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As a self-paced course you are in control of how and where you do the work.
I recommend building in a couple of hours a week. Over the course of a week, this isn’t a lot of time.
It comes down to deciding to prioritise your development and then make the choices of how you want to spend your time to support you to do this.
10 weeks isn’t a long time : consider where your time leaks are. Maybe it’s wasting time on socials or watching Netflix and you can create free time by curbing these pass times for a short while.
You may also want to speak with your manager to tell them you are working on career development and see whether you can have study time out.
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This is an accountability measure.
It’s one thing to do show up and listen to the information shared, and another to take the action that is going to truly support you with true transformation and growth.
If you enrol, it’s for a reason.
You want something to change.
You’re tired of some aspect of the way you’re working, how your career is playing out or you want much, much more.
And that’s what I want for you, to experience the change you want.
I’ll be supporting you every step of the way, and this is one of the ways I can motivate you in a self paced course, and to keep at it when you feel resistance or challenged.
The questionnaire will touch on each topic and you’ll be asked to share your experience with each.
It will be a combination of multiple choice and short form answers which I’ll personally review.
It will take you 45 minutes to an hour to complete thoughtfully.
If you’ve been doing the work, asking questions etc you will find it EASY.
It is designed to support you further.
To help cement what you have been working on, crystallise your clarity, and then be able to articulate it to help your career growth and progression.
You have 2 weeks post course completion to complete the final step.
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I’m glad you asked!
We’ve had internal promotions, secondments, new roles, leadership responsibilities , new careers entirely (EAs to CoS, project managers, social media managers, VAs and event managers).
We’ve also had massive pay rises (one client who went all-in received a 40% increase without asking!).
The bottom line is this:
if you do the work, if you lean into the challenges, you will experience positive change.
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Every effort will be made to mix up live call timing so all participants have an opportunity to attend whatever geography / market they’re in in your organisation.
Rachael is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Replays will be available for those who can’t make the live calls so you won’t miss out, and you can still ask questions if you’re not physically present.
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Yes!
This is one of the reasons questions are submitted in advance.
If there are themes they’ll be bundled together to maximise our time together.
You’ll see the response when you watch the call replay.
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Absolutely not!
The group coaching / Q+A calls along with the content is extremely effective.
If you do the work, the learning alone and the Q+A calls for questions get results.
The 1:1 tier exists for those clients who prefer to have the opportunity of a private call to dive into an issue or challenge they’re experiencing.
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Whatever you need clarity on or support with!
This is your time, to be used however you need it. We go deep on the area you need support in most.
We can discuss your career aspirations, or any blocks or challenges you are experiencing.
Some folks need specific strategies or tools to make a process more efficient or to work with others in a more impactful way.
Some need support with avoiding burnout.
Others want to refine communication style or skills, get personalised help with goal setting or mindset work.
Come prepared with what you’d like to discuss and what you’d like to get out of our chat so you get the maximum benefit of our time together.
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We understand life happens!
You can reschedule your 1:1 twice, with 24 hours notice.
Here are some of the finer details relating to 1:1s:
You receive a calendar invitation that has the option to reschedule and you’ll get a reminder about the upcoming call.
We don’t offer refunds for change of mind on booking a 1:1.
No shows will result in the 1:1 being forfeited and refunds will not be given as the time has been blocked out to work with you and other bookings couldn’t be accepted.
1:1s are to be used by the close date of the program.
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Never ever.
This is a common practice in the training and coaching world where recordings are saved and used to build out content for other programs and products.
We NEVER re-purpose recordings and don’t support that as a practice.
We take confidentiality very seriously, it’s what helps create a safe space and a special community.
At the end of each intake all live calls are deleted.
Replays do not have the ‘download’ function available to anyone watching.
You can rest assured replays will never be shared with anyone who is not in the intake.
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Ummm….….no……
And I’m sure you can understand why!
We ask you kindly uphold the integrity that respects this as being intellectual property of Rachael Bonetti and observe copyright of the program and all of its downloadable materials just as you would with any other business, digital or print content.
If anyone is discovered through the administration analytics (just like Santa, we can see everything) to be piggy backing log-ins or circulating copyright course materials they’ll be removed from the program and refunds will not be given.
It’s a little bit like digital shoplifting, and that’s not cool, am I right?
Thank you for your respect , understanding and most of all, for your integrity.
It is important to ALL businesses, but particularly small businesses.
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The perfect build on this program is the Mastermind, coming in late 2023.
Rachael mentors clients privately in 4 week sprints or single strategy sessions.
She also delivers full team masterclasses / workshops and training sessions in organisations.
Rachael is a speaker who is regularly booked for conferences and corporate events.
She is also a meditation/mindfulness teacher.
Get in touch to chat about any other ways of working together at hello@rachaelbonetti.com
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Scroll down to learn more about my experience from my nearly 30 year career.
More Questions?
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About Rachael
Rachael Bonetti was a career executive assistant for nearly 30 years.
She was a well respected, high performer who supported thought leaders, change makers, CEOs, Chairs and a high profile billionaire.
Her career spanned many industries and sectors, both private and public companies and she physically worked/lived in 7 countries.
Rachael has experience in multiple corporate crises, Royal Commissions, serious economic downturn (the GFC), the Pandemic, leadership change (C-Suite, Chair and CEO), large scale restructures and acquisitions and sales of businesses.
Her ways of working , thinking and best practices saved 8+ hours a week for CEOs, increased efficiencies and eased friction and peak pressure periods across organisations.
She built administration dream teams through creating finely tuned capability frameworks, impactful best practices and ways of working and targeted recruitment that supported creating internal career runways. She made the development of her teams a priority in every organisation she worked in.
Rachael is now a consultant, corporate trainer, writer, international public speaker and lifelong, passionate advocate for executive assistants.
She has been creating and delivering highly impactful public and private masterclasses, workshops and courses that elevate the administration community since 2019.
She is the host of the What It Means To Be Well podcast, a regular Forbes Australia contributor and she has specialist qualifications in communications and social media marketing.
Rachael is also a highly sought after wellbeing practitioner for wellbeing programs that support the administration community to thrive whilst navigating the unique challenges of their profession.
She teaches meditation, breath work and Wayapa Wuurrk (earth mindfulness) and holds certifications in each. She is also accredited in First Nations Cultural Sensitivity.
Her clients love working with her for her grounded, warm and empathetic approach, her refreshing honesty and her ability to relate to what her clients are experiencing.
They’ve said they love being able to leverage her personal deep, unique experience to find practical solutions to the challenges they’re facing in their roles and careers.
Head to the testimonials page to read some of her client’s experiences.
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